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...prologue, Peter (Robert Atzorn), a man of respectable dress, manner and background, murders a prostitute. In the epilogue he is seen in his asylum cell, having completed his descent from inexplicable behavior to full-scale madness. Between these two sequences, Peter, his wife Katarina (Christine Buchegger) and various friends and relatives speculate on what must have motivated him to murder a stranger. They reach few firm conclusions...
...name of the stunt's sponsor, ABC's thrill-pandering series That's Incredible! While gawkers gawked and cameras whirred, Wells, a professional stunt man, gunned a motorcycle up a ramp, sailed over the water fountains outside the showplace, but crashed on his descent. Result: a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower...
Cambridge has one of the larger Portuguese communities in New England, with 5-10,000 persons from Portugal or of Portuguese descent. The Portuguese have their own travel agencies, restaurants and department stores--and even a priest at St. Anthony's, the Portuguese parish church. And while the number of immigrants setting in Cambridge has risen over the past ten years, a lot of families have ancestors who settled in Cambridge more than a century...
...activity; and our aggressive drive to extract all possible unrenewable resources to feed the mechanical (read: growth-oriented) society. Until society comes to grip with the energy crisis and moves into a new phase ("The solar age") we will not progress, but will instead hasten graver crises and our descent into hell, which Rifkin calls "high-entropy...
Some figures released last week suggest that the economy is beginning to slow its rate of descent, if not to bounce back altogether. After six months of steady decline, industrial production in August rose 0.5% from the July level, while August's construction of new residential housing rose 12% over the previous month's depressed levels. Overall, preliminary statistics showed, in fact, that the contraction of the economy as a whole halted between July and September, as compared with the sharp 9.6% decline that had been registered between April and June...